Word: thees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want the public school system to get better; they want it to get worse, as a prelude to getting out of it and into private schools. To them the push for prayer is like asking the band of the Titanic to strike up Nearer, My God, to Thee...
...headed the NEH when the grant was approved. She is the most prominent of conservative critics who charge that National Standards offers what Cheney calls "a warped view of American history" and that its criteria for including or excluding landmark events and persons are "politically correct to a fare-thee-well." For example, Harriet Tubman, the African American who helped organize the pre-Civil War underground railroad, is cited six times in the guide, whereas Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is mentioned only once in passing. Students are expected to know about the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women...
Following last year's protest the students kept thee momentum going, meeting one-on-one with various toplevel administrators and participating in a town meeting to discuss their concerns...
...exhibit also contains works which are more ambiguous, such as Amy Wilson's photograph of "Gynecare," in which a woman holds up a mirror to reflect the medical instruments protruding from a patient's vagina. In fact, an explicitly genital theme dominates thee exhibit, as manifested by Leone MacDonald's depiction of sexual organs in "Clitoris," "Vagina," and "Labia" with simple lines made with a branding iron...
Nearer my death to thee: Cruising in the closecomfort of a prop jet into the lights of Quebecfor a bilingual spring break, FM thought all thoseyears of French had come to naught. We could havesworn we heard the pilot use the words"bombe" and "une evacuation" as we circledthe city. Silly us, we thought, those Canadiansare too busy trying to keep warm in late March toworry about bombing airports. The pilot'scharmingly accented anglais told usotherwise...